The Charm School | Nelson DeMille

The Charm School | Nelson DeMille | Will get you hooked

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The Charm School

	The Charm School Nelson DeMille Sphere, 2000 - 704 pages average customer review:based on 199 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Read by James Naughton
Three Cassettes, 3 hours

Something very strange -- and sinister -- is going on in the Russian woods at Borodino. In a place called Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School, young KGB agents are being taught by American POW's how to be model citizens of the USA. The Soviet goal -- to infiltrate the United States undetected. When an unsuspecting American tourist stumbles upon this secret, he sets in motion a CIA investigation that will reveal horrifying police state savagery and superpower treachery.

A chilling story of cold war espionage, The Charm School is relentlessly suspenseful right up to its white-knuckle ending!

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The Charm School

This is definately a 'don't put down until I'm finished" book! Mr. Demille has done an excellant job of creating a story that could or could not be true with Viet Nam era POWs.
It was very hard to stop reading because the plot just keeps getting more suspenseful!
I commend Mr. Demille on such a thrilling book and I really look forward to reading more of his action packed, attention getter novels!
Richard A. Smith (author: ONE STANDS ALONE)

Will get you hooked

Over 10 yrs ago this is the 1st book I read (in paperback) by Nelson DeMille ....I was hooked. I have recommend this author and specifically this book to many people so I wanted to hard back to keep and enjoy. If you like James Patterson, your LOVE Nelson DeMille. Books are thrillers that keep you on the end of your seat. I am always looking forward to his next novel.

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Stimulating

The Charm School is an absolutely fascinating book - loved it. Exciting would be an Understatement.

Awesome Cold War Novel!

This novel is simply chilling. It is one of the top books I have read in a long time, and it takes you deep inside the old Soviet Union. This is a good read for anyone young enough to not remember these times. Amazing book, one of my favorites.

Well written but showing its age

When "The Charm School" first appeared in 1988, the Cold War was almost over, though no one knew it at the time. A good guys vs. bad guys story line pushed a lot of American buttons at that time and could be read uncritically. Times have changed a bit since the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc and the guilty pleasure of blowing holes in the KGB baddies isn't quite as intense. More to the point, Nelson DeMille's over the top scenario in "The Charm School" of a handful of American agents battling Soviet villains on the latters' home turf isn't easy to swallow from this distance in time.

Having registered those criticisms of the book, I have to say that DeMille has a real talent for nuanced characters and, of course, fast-paced action. He does a good job of keeping the story line moving through the 600+ pages of this very long novel. That this book is still in print--I read the 2005 reprint--is testimony to its strengths and to DeMille's reputation as a writer of popular fiction.

I have read only one other DeMille book, but I suspect that there are probably better, more recent ones that the fan of action novels could start with.

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